Infectologia

Rastreamento do excesso de mortalidade nos diferentes países durante a pandemia de COVID-19 com o World Mortality Dataset.

4 Ago, 2021 | 12:34h

Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset – eLlife

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Exploring the gap between excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries.

Report: Three new estimates of India’s all-cause excess mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic – pandemic death toll estimated to be between 3.4 million and 4.9 million excess deaths.

COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show

 

Comentário no Twitter (fio – clique para saber mais)

Excess mortality across the world with the World Mortality Dataset – officially published at @eLife!https://t.co/bCudrKhZ6d

A thread on data, findings, and more.

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(Illustration by Gal Kabiri) pic.twitter.com/oqtXRqUQH9

— Ariel Karlinsky (@ArielKarlinsky) August 3, 2021

 

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Opinião (vídeo) | “O crescimento da variante Delta pode colapsar mais rápido do que se imagina.”

4 Ago, 2021 | 12:32h

The Delta Surge May Collapse Faster Than You Think – ZDoggMD

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The study behind new CDC’s mask guidance found vaccinated people can spread delta variant.

How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous.

COVID vaccines slash viral spread, but Delta is an unknown – “Studies show that vaccines reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by more than 80%, but the Delta variant is creating fresh uncertainty”.

CDC changes mask guidance in response to threat of Delta variant of Covid-19.

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Gestão de antimicrobianos na UTI em tempos de COVID.

4 Ago, 2021 | 12:31h

Antimicrobial stewardship in the ICU in COVID times: the known unknowns – International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

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IDSA Updated Covid-19 Guidance: Co-Infection and Antimicrobial Stewardship – “bacterial coinfections with SARS-CoV-2 infection are relatively infrequent (likely occurring in less than 10% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients)”.

Antimicrobial stewardship in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic: back to the 90s?

Another study shows a high frequency of antibiotic use among patients hospitalized with Covid-19 (85.2%), despite low rates of confirmed secondary bacterial infections.

Too many COVID-19 patients get unneeded ‘just in case’ antibiotics

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Pneumomediastino espontâneo em pacientes diagnosticados com Covid-19: uma série de casos com revisão da literatura.

4 Ago, 2021 | 12:29h

Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum in Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19: a Case Series with Review of Literature – Academic Radiology

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Estudo randomizado | Lembretes via mensagens de texto podem aumentar a vacinação contra COVID-19.

4 Ago, 2021 | 12:27h

Behavioral Nudges Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations – Nature

Comentários:

Text-message ‘nudges’ can encourage holdouts to get COVID vaccination, study finds – UCLA

Text reminders boost vaccine appointments – Carnegie Mellon University

 

Comentário no Twitter

Sometimes the tools that actually work in public health are profoundly boring. Here, a text message reminder system is shown in a randomized trial to increase vaccine uptake. Years of HIV adherence research has shown the value of simple nudges like this.https://t.co/1ndpnQ6Ha6 https://t.co/Gltll8DTJ4

— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) August 3, 2021

 

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Quanto o coronavírus pode piorar?

4 Ago, 2021 | 12:25h

How much worse can the coronavirus get? – Vox

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M-A | Suporte respiratório não invasivo fora da unidade de terapia intensiva para insuficiência respiratória aguda relacionada a Covid-19.

3 Ago, 2021 | 11:35h

Noninvasive respiratory support outside the intensive care unit for acute respiratory failure related to coronavirus-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Critical Care

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Estudo de coorte | Fatores de risco para “long covid” em crianças previamente hospitalizadas.

3 Ago, 2021 | 11:33h

Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalised children using the ISARIC Global follow-up protocol: A prospective cohort study – European Respiratory Review

Comentários:

Study investigates long-term sequelae of COVID-19 in hospitalized children – News Medical

 

Comentário no Twitter

A quarter of children admitted to a Moscow hospital for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 PCR+ve) have persistent symptoms 6 months after discharge with one in ten experiencing multiple symptoms. Older age and allergy increase risk. #LongCovidKids @ISARIC1 @DrMunblitt https://t.co/Tre74CUyrS pic.twitter.com/0JksaXjRpI

— Professor Calum Semple OBE (@ProfCalumSemple) July 2, 2021

 

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Estudo de coorte | Seguimento de 6 meses da síndrome inflamatória multissistêmica em crianças.

3 Ago, 2021 | 11:32h

Six Month Follow-up of Patients With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children – Pediatrics (PDF)

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Sequelas pós-agudas da pneumonia por COVID-19: seguimento de 6 meses com tomografia computadorizada (TC) torácica.

3 Ago, 2021 | 11:30h

Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 Pneumonia: 6-month Chest CT Follow-up – Radiology

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